So I have found a new favorite technique. If you turn on remix mode for the prompts you can edit the prompt between generations of the AI renders. By completely rewriting the prompt but ask for a “subtle” variation, the AI will try and shoehorn new information and context but keep the composition intact in terms of color and value.
Example:
let’s start with:
prompt: look at the size of my hat, you filthy peasants!
Then I ask for a subtle variation but edit the prompt to a snippet of Alice in Wonderland.
prompt: “It is the same thing with you,” said the Hatter, and he poured a little hot tea upon its nose. The Dormouse shook its head impatiently and said, without opening its eyes, "Of course, of course; just what I was going to remark myself."
Which brings back some of that old school surrealism from earlier versions of AI that mid journey usually tried to downplay in hopes of becoming a universal stock image generator.