I'd definitely be up for trying a polished version post jam, and I definitely agree on not having to follow the theme literally, you just go along with it however you interpret it. All I was meaning was that it didn't significantly impact the gameplay. That's not a bad thing, just made it a little bit more of a background thing.
Makes sense on the forcing players into a room increasing difficulty as well and layouts being simplistic, obviously it's only 48 hours there's only so much to do. I'm mostly just talking hypotheticals and such based off what I can see when I'm writing stuff up just to give ideas and such.