I spend about 25% of my time in the lounge when I am looking for new models to visit, but I only use it as a pop-up for when I wish to ninja tip. [Those models who are an unknown/ risk to tip, who I don't want to actually visit yet; I take a look at their profile, then do a few test tips from the lounge.]
Think of the lounge as more a locker room, the members there are pretty much out of the game, most conversations have nothing to do with the models at all. (Trash talking each other mainly).
They refer to posting a model name as 'pimping' the model, not a popular thing to do in repetition. A model needs to be well into the action for it to be effective, by then the traffic has already arrived.
Anything that a model does worthy of lounge attention will be picked up by home page previews and those actively searching for you.
With this in mind rather than asking a member to leave you to visit the lounge, I would keep the member in my room and spend that time used asking in making a twitter/ news-feed announcement that action has arrived in your room.
Most members use home page previews/ page position, tags, or twitter/ social media to find someone they like. One thing about traffic someone should mention is that traffic is not always visible, there can be much that goes on before that first visit. With previews/ position you can pass over a model who draws your attention many times before actually making a visit.