And this is why Star Wars tends to not do flashbacks.
Maybe if the pan up into the stars was extended/stylized and accompanied by some (non harp 😉) music so it was fairly clear that this wasn’t literally happening overhead at that moment, then the pan back down to BB-8 in a clearly new situation would sell it.
It’s probably the sort of idea which is heavily dependent on execution, but I wanted to gauge if the flashback angle was a bridge too far even in concept.