One should refrain from attempting to use this bivalve as a bed, since this tends to reduce its value in the eyes of potential buyers. If they find out about it, that is.
The staggering size of these mollusks has fired the imagination of artists since the dawn of man. One particularly famous rendering has led to countless second-rate attempts to depict some muscled sea-god or scantily clad mermaid reclining upon the ocean's own bivalve bed.
Godsbed 
