Mission accomplished! Thanks for the comment. You're right. It gets easy if you play it for a while but forcing you to change your thinking by jumping into it from another game would make it tougher. An interesting thought to play with!
Yeah, I was thinking it could be a puzzle for a Legend of Zelda / puzzle platformer type of game. I could also see it in a sci-fi game. Jak and Daxter3 had some mini-games that I remember.