So you would say in the past tense "I lay on the bed because I was tired."
VOA: special.2010.02.11
His head began to ache, and Mister Mindon lay down on the bed.
VOA: special.2010.05.29
His head began to ache, and Mr. Mindon lay down on the bed.
VOA: special.2009.01.31
He said Gilliard had got the statue from the garden and the knife from the kitchen before going upstairs to attack his wife in the bedroom as she layonthebed.
It was only when I got home at midnight and layonthebed with my sleeping five-year-old daughter that the tension of the day gave way to fear of what was to come.