Install OS X on replacement macbook air HD from Lion

Hi,
My Macbook air hard drive recently gave up after 4 years (therefore out of warranty) so I bought a replacement hard drive for it.
At the time I was running snow leopard on my imac and understood I could use it's optical drive to install snow leopard remotely (I have the instsallation disk). However, I've since upgraded to Lion and that option has apparently been taken away. I don't have a firewire cable. Are there any other options?
I've tried using the Lion Recovery Disk Assistant and after creating a recovery USB, formatted the hard drive using the disk utility. Unfortunately it hangs on 'Loading Installation Information...' when 'verifying my computer's eligibility' with Apple.
Any help appreciated.
Thanks

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