The Dirty Yellow Chair

I, over the past week or so, have come to believe in what Jonathan Lethem has to say. My whole life I've been taught never to plagiarize, never to use what others have written/spoken/done in the past and use it for my own purposes. Lethem points out that, in his mind, the artist is inseparably interwoven with his/her environment/surroundings which includes others' speech, artwork, attitudes, everything! He had developed, and is now exposing me to his radical new way of thinking about art.
So now, we're taking what he has to say at face value, and taking him at his word. My group was assigned the Dirty Yellow Chair scene: a juicy, sexual scene that takes place (time and time again) on a filthy yellow piece of furniture. Our group tried very hard to make it as interesting as possible, aiming to eventually have the past and present flashback and forth between the two, creating a dichotomy between the two in the scene. My only complaint was that we only had one class period. We had really good ideas while we were brainstorming, but eventually got to the point where we all looked at the clock and realized we had less than 20 mins to wind up what we had going at the time! I think that we could've come up with a scene that would've worked quite nicely (especially if one got the cinematography transitions between flashbacks down [ie. zooming into one of the telephone receiver's holes by the mouthpiece]), had we been given perhaps one more class period: one for brainstorming, another for actually getting the ideas down in a concise manner.