Possible Clues:

• Large cushion used as a seat
• No Scots heading back into overnight accommodation with silver cushion
• Comic character with gossip overturned cushion
• Casual chair type
• *Soft, lumpy chair
• Large cushion used as seat
• Ashtray base, perhaps
• Runner rejected speaker's gift, a child's toy
• Large cushion (full of dried pulses?)
• Hacky Sack, basically