Overwrite iPhone contacts with iCloud contacts

How do I overwrite the contacts on my iPhone with all of my contacts on iCloud? My husband gave me his iPhone after mine was stolen and it has all of his contacts currently. All of my contacts are successfully stored on iCloud, but I don't want to turn on iCloud -> Contacts sync and have his 1000+ contacts merged from this iPhone up to my 1000+ contacts on iCloud.
I tried to delete all of his contacts from the iPhone but I no longer have the Edit button on my Contacts after upgrading the device to iOS5.
Any ideas?

Thanks for the tips everyone. I finally figured it out. 
I first put the iPhone in airplane mode so it couldn't sync. Then I went into Settings -> iCloud and turned on Contacts, saying I wanted to Merge the contacts. I was then able to start deleting Contacts (the Edit button was now available in my Contacts screen). After deleting a few contacts and deciding that would take way too long I went back into Settings -> iCloud and turned off Contacts. It then asked what I wanted to do with all of the contacts on my iPhone that had been merged with iCloud contacts (though they really hadn't b/c I'd been in Airplane mode all the while). I said I did not want to keep them. I went back out to check my Contacts and they had all been deleted. Success!
With an empty Contact list I turned off Airplane mode, went back into Settings -> iCloud and turned Contacts sync back on and my iCloud contacts started immediately sync'ing down to my newly cleaned out Contact list.

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