How do I reinstall Lion using Lion Recovery but bypassing the Apple ID?

Okay, so I've sorta had this done before at a Genius Bar on another coputer.
My friend (who has a MacBook, like me) bought Lion and gave me and my girlfriend (who has a MacBook Pro) a copy of it using my USB drive. My gf started having trouble with Lion so I took her Pro to the Apple Store. The guy said it was acting funny because the drivers on a Pro are a little different than those on a regular MacBook. The Apple Store employee showed me how to reinstall Lion so that all the drivers would match up with her computer.
We restarted the computer and held down Option to begin the Lion Recovery. From there we followed instructions to reinstall Lion from the cloud (Apple Servers, right?). When we got to the part where it asks for an Apple ID, well I don't remember exactly how he did it but he must have bypassed it somehow because I don't know my friend's Apple ID and I never asked him for it. From there it was super simple and everything went smoothly; Lion installed and started up like a whole new computer. Now I want to do all this at home with my laptop but I don't know how to bypass this. I can't ask my friend for his Apple ID and obviously mine won't work cuz I never bought Lion. Does anyone know how to bypass this?

We are not intending to help you. We are intending to shame you for stealing copyrighted software that only costs $19.99 (Mountain Lion is the only version now available). It seems no matter how cheap the price, people still want to steal it, and then ask for help right here on Apple's forum when they can't get it to work.
As for the Apple Store employee, he used his own Apple ID and should be fired for doing that, since he admitted to you that the trouble came from copying an installed system rather than buying the installer and installing it properly.

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