If your opening emotion is weak, then you will pick up the energy in the room, fall out in the middle of the scene and spiral down from there. You need to be setting up your opening emotion outside in the waiting room. If you are still breaking down the scene in the waiting room, then you didn’t do enough homework. Only concentrate on your emotional state of mind at the top. This will carry you throughout the entire scene. When you throw yourself into the opening emotion, the chances of taking in anything counter to the story is nill.
