Is there a way to shut off part of my macbook pro screen?

When I am only listening to music or doing a small task the large screen seems sort of unnecessary. I can dim the entire screen with the brightness adjustment. But I wonder if there is a way to minimize the screen to only take up a portion of the monitor.

In Snow Leopard there is a System Preference option called Expose & Spaces that allowed one to divide the display into four to 16 quadrants/spaces. In principle this come close to what you are suggesting. This has been abandoned in Lion.
I suspect that to write the application that you have conceived of, would probably have to tap into the OS and I don't think that Apple would countenance that.
Here are images from Expose & Spaces:
I personally never found much use for this application.
Ciao.

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