Creation-Restoration Speculation Generalization

The early portions of Genesis have been the victim of some pretty erroneous speculations. From Adam and Eve's belly buttons to fallen angels having sex with humans, there is so much here of which we are left to wonder. However, we can have legitimate questions...

 Compare the texts of Gen. 2:8-14 and Rev. 22:1-5...

 Is what we find in Revelation a mere restoration of Eden? Or is it something more? Does the whole metanarrative of Scripture take us back to the way things were? Or does it take us further?

Could the idea be that the creation narrative is the world in infant stage, sabotaged by the Fall, then through the Redeemer it is regenerated into the glorious maturity of Revelation 22.

(I should reference that I heard bits of the infant stage idea from Carl Sanders at ETS in the paper that he presented, although I don't have a copy of the paper).