The closest I can think of is replacing the Layout effect with an overlay object with a correct transition mode and the Noise FX applied to keep the look.
Now, here's the fun part: Effects use the global time parameter and are not affected by individual object timescale settings, so to make this work, you would have to keep your global timescale at 1.0 (so Noise still animates) and set all the other relevant objects' timescale to 0.0 (for pause)