I was watching Dirty Rotten Scoundrels on Broadway when a piece of the scenery fell down, and without missing a beat the actors started to improvise. The audience was eating it up because these actors broke the context of the scene and became authentic. Something real happened and that breaks the context of the reality we are in.

I will have trouble defining inappropriate choices and unreasonable requests and giving examples.

An inappropriate choice might be this: you stand up in the middle of this group and just stand there and hang out.(stands) You would talk as though as everything is normal but you have disrupted space and time with this simple gesture.

An unreasonable request might be: “Do you have 10 bucks?” There is no “reason” for this request and so you are being “unreasonable”. Go into a room and say “everybody give me 10 bucks” and watch how this changes everyone’s reality.

In doing this exercise you become powerful. You literally take power in your hands and wield it. If you notice as I stood up it felt a little strange. Reality changed just a little bit. You change your world when you change the context and break acceptable patterns. We have this strange agreement that “this” is how it should be, this agreed upon reality of complacency, and so when we change that context we change our world.
Break the tacit agreements and social conventions that allow us to show up sound asleep and you will have great impact on any situation. Come up with examples of this exercise on your own and come back and report. When you do, notice the shift in power, the shift in comfort and the shift in impact that you have.