As I was working through the above (or rather, below on your screen), it dawned on me that although this scheme leaves room at any time for either or both of the other instruments to articulate a contrasting idea, it doesn't leave room for anyone to play a long phrase. To borrow Stravinsky's remark about the organ, "the monster never breathes."
So, two modifications:
1) A fourth "instrument" joins the mix, viz., a rest (at least, in this strand of the composite texture).
2) Every instrument acquires "scare quotes." That is, rather than literally assign a given phraselet to the violin, that phrase is assigned to the violin's transposition ... and then, depending on the register, could be performed by the violin, or by the guitar, or by 'cello.
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