During multiple discussions, the main suggestion for improvement boiled down to making the saw blade appear more integrated, as if the bed was designed to include it. Some suggested showing messy cut lines in the mattress, and even feathers flying out of the pillow, to show the power of the activated saw. I toyed with this idea for a while, but ultimately decided to exclude it from the final execution, as I felt that messier, more aggressive cutting would make the saw seem separate from the bed itself.
Here's some snapshots of the refined version for comparison:
This particular combination plays with a few forms of contrast. The most obvious would be the juxtaposition of comfort and discomfort; having something as dangerous as a sawblade in a space with the sole purpose of comforting us is deeply off-putting. Another dichotomy posed by it is an very industrial object fused with a very personal piece of furniture. The mashup of these two items implies a sort of destruction or manufacturing of societal norms that I find very intriguing. 
