Need help installing 10.8 on my erased hard drive

Hi,I bought 10.8 and created a bootable disk on a flash drive.
Then, instead of erasing my drive as part of the installation of 10.8, I booted from the flash drive, the used Disk Utilities to erase the drive. (I know you don't have to erase your drive, but my MBPro has slowed down so much, I decided to)
I don't know why, but now I cannot see the flash drive as a startup disk option - in fact I can't see anything as a startup drive.
When I restart while holding Command + R, I eventually get a box in the middle of screen called "Mac OS X Utilities." There are four options, including Reinstall Mac OS X with the subhead, "Set up and install a new copy of Lion" (not Mountain Lion)
What should I do?
Thank you!
Bill McDonough
Beverly MA

Hi,
That's not what I meant but I tried that after reading your reply. Three icons appeared
on the screen--Recovery HD, Mac OS X, and an external hard drive.
When I click either of the first two, they lead me back to the Mac OS X Utilities box. But this time the OS is
10.8, not 10.7.
However when I click on reinstall the only hard drives it shows me are my external and the flash drive. But the flash drive already has 10.8
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