Later that day, Sue came to the bed where Johnsy lay, and put one arm around her.
VOA: special.2009.08.01
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
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 lay on thebed.
It was only when I got home at midnight and lay on thebed with my sleeping five-year-old daughter that the tension of the day gave way to fear of what was to come.