I thought it was more of a flashsideways and foreshadowing.
I thought she was envisioning what she thought the café could and should be, and the vision was woven together with her personal desire for liberation, liberation from not only her husband, but her own rigidness.
The flashmoment was also a method of illustrating the difference between Jasmine and the others - she had a vivid imagination and stared into the desert with relish and hope, while the others became the desert they stared at until she entered their lives.
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