Occasionally coercing Nancy's friend to display Eastern art (7)
I believe the answer is:
'eastern art' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'occasionally coercing nancy's friend' is the wordplay.
'occasionally' indicates alternate letters.
'nancy's friend' becomes 'ami' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
The alternate letters of 'coercing' are 'orig'.
'orig'+'ami'='ORIGAMI'
'to display' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for origami that I've seen before include "Creation of objects from paper", "Eastern art", "Jap. paper-folding art", "Making of paper shape", "Art originally created in simple materials to design bird forms".)
I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.