In my opinion, no. I'll ignore (other than to indicate what I'm ignoring... and thereby not really ignore it at all) the fact that the legs we see the tail go between are Harry Dean Stanton's and that the clip was part of an alternate version of his death scene.
Every time I see it I have trouble deciding where the tip of the tail ends up but I tend to side with "her back". After this, the way the scene plays out in my mind:
After the cut, at the moment the tip of the tail touches Lambert, wherever that is, her flight response finally kicks in and she tries to bolt. The first thing that happens is that she trips over the alien's tail and begins to scramble backwards away from it. The alien grabs for her but is leisurely enough (it seems to be fascinated when its prey are crazed with terror) about it that it only manages to catch hold of her legs, rather, her pants. Those come off violently enough that they take her boots with them.
Lambert gets a few more feet away, babbling/gasping incoherently the whole while, before the alien decides it has had a enough and goes in for the kill with a bite, provoking her final shriek.
That or something for which there's nothing on screen to even suggest it but presented here as another mishmash of unused ideas for her death and because it seemed disturbing when I first thought of it moments ago: Lambert does finally try to hide, now that the alien is inches away. And for some alien reason (see what I did... oh never mind) Kane's Son "helps" her get in the much too small locker. When she's dead the alien yanks her out, separating her from her pants in the process.
I have nothing for why she was hanging from something because I have no idea what she was hanging from.