Multiple Wireless Connections?

We recently moved into a friend's house (temporarily, thank goodness!) and they already have a Windows-based wireless network in place. Their wireless router is some sort of Cisco/LinkSys device. Our two iMacs and my MacBook Air connect to the Internet via their network just fine.
Prior to moving in with them, I had my own wireless network in our home, using an Airport Extreme with a USB-2 connected 1TB hard drive for Time Machine. I was able to back up all three of our Macs to that hard drive, plus get to the Internet, and life was good.
I can connect to their network for Internet access, but not to my Airport Extreme at the same time. When I tell one of my Macs to connect to my Airport Extreme, it tosses out the other network, making it impossible to stay connected to the Internet while doing Time Machine backups. When I then tell the Mac to connect to our friend's network for Internet access, it tosses out my Airport Extreme connection, making the scheduled Time Machine backups fail.
Is there any way to have OS X connect to two wireless networks at the same time?

Hi Martin - thanks for the quick reply!
I had a feeling that the answer was gonna be "no", but thought I'd ask anyway. Additional wireless cards/adapters in the iMac can't happen so I'll have to go the other route.
Their LinkSys unit has several Ethernet ports on the back and I probably could connect the Airport Extreme to it. I had been using a LinkSys DSL modem and getting my IP address via DHCP from it, so it "should" be fairly transparent to the Airport Extreme. Where I'll run into issues with this connection scheme is with electrical power. I took a look at their setup and they have three 117VAC plug strips hooked together, into a wall outlet - ughhhh!!!
Guess I'll have to weigh the benefits of routine backups against having yet another pair of devices hooked into their rat's nest of cables & plug strips.
Thanks for the info - wish me luck!

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