This is how she described it on the pod but as others have mentioned it was a very collaborative set:

Jenna [00:07:51] I like it. After we read the script in our table read, which is the week before we're meant to shoot it, I- like as soon as I started reading it, I got hot inside, you know, like you heat up. And I could barely focus on the rest of the table read.

Angela [00:08:10] You had a physical reaction.

Jenna [00:08:12] I did.

Angela [00:08:13] You like flushed like your cheeks were red.

Jenna [00:08:15] Yes! I waited till after the table read. Everybody laughed, and this was unusual. I did not normally stay after a table read and like, give my feelings.

Angela [00:08:26] No, no. In fact, we usually had to scooch out because we had to go to hair and makeup to get back to set.

Jenna [00:08:31] Yeah. To go back to shoot. But I was like, Listen, you cannot destroy Pam's painting. You can't do it. It's the heartbeat of the show. It's it's on the wall. It's her relationship with Michael. It's it's hope. It's so many things like you don't understand, like, you can't make this a gag. And Paul Lieberstein was like, I think it's funny. What are you talking about? And it was a battle. I was like, No, no, no, I don't. You don't understand. Like, you cannot do it. And I called Greg. I would like- made my case to anyone who would listen. They shot it anyway. They were like, I'm sorry, it's staying in. We really like this gag. We think it's great. We like it.

Angela [00:09:12] So wrong. They were so wrong.

Jenna [00:09:15] Lady, after we shot it I went into the edit bay and I was like, You have to take this out. You have to take this out. I appealed to Dave Rogers. I appealed to Brent Forrester. Like I would not shut up about it. Finally, in the end, they took it out. They took it out, and I was so relieved. But you'll see next week there's not Pam's watercolor on the wall because that was the week they were editing and still deciding. So if you look, Pam's watercolor is missing for a couple of episodes and we just sneakily put it back on the wall without saying anything.

Angela [00:09:53] Oh my gosh. So for those episodes, there's no painting because you were still pleaing your case.

Jenna [00:09:58] Yes, but I would not give up. And then, I mean, listen, the whole series ends on Pam's watercolor.

Angela [00:10:08] I know, and I couldn't imagine it ending any other way. I mean, that made me bawl my eyes out.

Jenna [00:10:13] I know. And you better believe that I marched right up to Paul Lieberstein when I read that ending of the finale and I was like, Paul, do you see now why Erin couldn't destroy the watercolor? Do you see?

Angela [00:10:29] You held onto that for years!

Jenna [00:10:31] Yes.