Of course building a kitchen makes all the symmetric sense in the world because everybody's burning calories at 120 beats a minute. You could even register it on a graph at the DJ booth. "How fast are they burning calories, sir?" "126 a minute. " "Are you sure?" "Oh, I'm very sure. " You can meter that out.
I think writing a book with film in mind is a way to write a really bad books. You can usually tell those books that are packaged to become films.