How can I reinstall Lion on a replacement HD?

The HD on my Mac Mini [Mid 2009] seemed to be dying. Disk Utility confirmed that the Drive was on its way out. So, I did a complete backup to TM, and since the Drive still seemed to be operating, I made a clone of it using Carbon Copy Cloner.
I had the Drive replaced, and have spent the last two evenings searching for the answer on how to put everything back on my Drive. I was thinking I needed to reinstall Lion and THEN restore the files from either TM or Carbon Copy Cloner. The trouble is that the Mini won't boot without Lion [or a predecessor] already installed.
I THINK I can boot from my external drive -- the one to which I saved the Carbon Copy Cloner backup -- but I'm not sure. Before trying that, is there a way to reinstall Lion on the Mini? [Without Snow Leopard on it, I don't have the App Store, so I can't simply D/L Lion again from the App Store. I saw Apple's KB article which noted: If you happen to encounter a situation in which you cannot start from the Recovery HD, such as your hard drive stopped responding or you installed a new hard drive without Mac OS X installed, new Mac models introduced after public availability of OS X Lion automatically use the Lion Internet Recovery feature if the Recovery HD (Command-R method above) doesn't work. Lion Internet Recovery lets you start your Mac directly from Apple's Servers. The system runs a quick test of your memory and hard drive to ensure there are no hardware issues.
Since I "happened" to encounter a situation where I cannot start from the Recovery HD -- and I don't have a "new Mac Model," how do I reinstall Lion on my Mini?
Thanks for your help.

Thank you for the response.
That's exactly what I did -- down to the finger crossing. Unfortunately, no joy --despite the season.
Despite several other Macs around the house we apparently don't have a Stand Alone copy of Snow Leopard, which would at least let me re-download Lion. I DID find a boxed Vers. of Leopard, which is how I got the Mini to boot in the first place.
The Mini will boot off of the external, and all my files appear to be there and working. But despite having copied it all over to the Mini, it won't boot -- it just hangs at the Gray Boot-up screen.
This sure would be a lot easier if I hadn't bought Lion off of the App store. Without discs to work from I'm having a hard time recovering from a dead HD.
Thank you, again for the help. Merry Christmas!

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