Looping a short clip under a color key of a longer clip

What I want to do is key out part of a clip (like a green screen), and have a looping short clip (like water droplets, etc) playing underneath. I can’t figure out how to loop the background clip for the duration of the action clip! I have a 30 second action clip and a 4 second background clip. I have tried to drag the background clip to make it longer in the sequence but it won't stretch.

Repeat the short clip by duplicating it over and over
or using the same one..over and over.

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