The idea contained in your last sentence is worthy and relevant to Ambrose Bierce's story, "An Occurrence on Owl Bridge." Since the concept of time does not really exist, Bierce utilizes this abstract concept which man has created to distort the reality of the action in his narrative, as you mention.
As the previous poster has asked you, consider the theme as having to do with the human condition. Indeed, what happens in the plot is a result of the suspension of time in the mind of the condemned man. (If you have ever been in a car accident, you will understand how slowly the point of impact comes if you are aware of its approach--odd.) It is because time in the sense of hours and minutes is not real that it can seem slower or longer depending upon one's mental condition.
So, that being said, what about this to "tighten up" what you have put:
Time is a mutable element, yet it is also of paramount importance in life. For, it is man's method of measurement, recording history and marking moments in one's life. In Ambrose Bierce's "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" the narrative of the capture of an Alabama soldier by the Northern army lends dramatic and untimely effects to his final hours.
[You may also wish to consider Bierce's variations in point of view--omniscient narrator to objective to third-person limited narrator--affect the story and concept of time.]
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