Ok, gr8 start on modeling.

if I were you though, I'd look up Mental Ray materials, especailly the DGS shader, and also on interior lighting (which should be used, since thats a monitor, located indoors :p

Theres a nice thread over at www.cgtalk.com in the maya>maya rendering section called VRAY style renders in Mental Ray

Take an hour or two and read half of that thread, and you will gain sooo much knowledge about rendering, making your renders fast, optimizing them, the best settings for sampling and such, different lights... etc.

If you want to learn lighting, since u said u dont have much rendering experience just read that thread

hope that helps
MAtt