You know, WB, the only thing I can think of to do in your situation is to call her on the carpet about the comments.
I know this goes against what you are ultimately trying to accomplish though.

I am just an antagonistic person when it comes to that stuff, and would not be able to restrain myself!

To the "You never know.." comment I would be tempted to say, "Well why would you have said it, if not to indicate a desire to have sex? What were you hoping to accomplish by saying that you wanted the kids out of the house?"

Or something like that.