Scene of gold being put on the furniture item (7)
I believe the answer is:
tableau
'scene' is the definition.
(I know that tableau is a type of scene)
'gold being put on the furniture item' is the wordplay.
'gold' becomes 'Au' (Au is the chemical symbol for gold).
'being put on' means one lot of letters go next to another (some letters go on or after others).
'the furniture item' becomes 'table' (I've seen this before).
'au' put after 'table' is 'TABLEAU'.
'of' acts as a link.
(Other definitions for tableau that I've seen before include "Living picture" , "Group of models representing a scene" , "Staged scene" , "- - vivant" , "Dramatic scene (where the action is frozen?)" .)