Temporal Boundaries? Homework help please!

This term came up in a question, and I have never heard it before. I tried google-ing it, but none of it makes sense. If some could clarify what exactly it means, pertaining to the question "What are the temporal boundaries of this vignette?" that would be great. The piece in question I typed below.

Dave Eggers
Woman Waiting to Take a Photograph
The woman is a young woman. She wants to make a living as a photographer, but at the moment she is temping at a company that publishes books about wetlands preservation. On her days off she takes pictures, and today she is sitting in her car, across the street from a small grocery store called The Go-Getters Market. The store is located in a very poor neighbourhood: the windows are barred and at night a roll-down steel door covers the storefront. The woman thus finds the name Go-Getters an interesting one, because it is clear that the customers of the market are anything but. They are drunkards and prostitutes and transients, and the young photographer thinks that if she can get the right picture of some of these people entering the store, she will make a picture that would be considered trenchant, or even poignant - either way the product of a sharp and observant eye. So she sits in her Toyota Camry, which her parents gave her because it was four years old and they wanted something new, and she waits for the right poor person to enter or leave the store. She has her window closed, but will open it when the right person appears, and then shoot that person under the sign that says Go-Getters. This, for the viewer of her photograph when it is displayed - first in a gallery, then in the hallway of a collector, and later in a museum when she has her retrospective - will prove that she, the photographer, has a good eye for the inequities and injustices of life, for hypocrisy and the exploitation of the underclass.

Thank You! :]

Temporal boundary is business-babble for time frame. They don't like to talk about time and place because that is too easy to understand, so they make it sound more mysterious by talking about spatial boundaries (place) and temporal boundaries (time). In this way they can make a simple idea look like an academic concept that only clever people can understand.

Where ordinary people are in the office from 9 till 5, business-babblers are within a concrete-wall mediated spatial boundary, with temporal boundaries at 9 am and 5 pm.

How this relates to your problem is a bit unclear, I am not sure what information the question wants because it is really a very vague question. The obvious answer is that it starts when the woman parks her car and ends when she takes her photo an leaves, but that seems a bit too easy.

On the other hand, there are at least three temporal planes (:banana:) in there: the 'now' when she is sitting in the car, the 'then' when her parents gave her the car, and the 'to be' when she takes the photo and displays it. You could argue that there are four separate 'to be's - taking the photo, displaying it in the gallery, then the hallway, then the museum.

With that in mind, maybe the question wants you to place boundaries where her parents provided the car and the photo hanging in the museum, but that answer is open ended as it could hang in a museum for ever.