Why Greco-Roman marble?
The bust on Floral Shoppe is Helios, the Greek sun god, and the piece is held in the Archaeological Museum of Rhodes.
That single cover did most of the work of fixing marble as the genre's default object. The rest of the frame matters as much: the Japanese title in bright pink, tiled surroundings, and the Twin Towers in the background — a 2011 record putting a pre-2001 skyline behind a classical head.
The wider move is older than the genre. Classical statuary had already been flattened into clip art by decades of commercial design, which is exactly what makes it usable here: it arrives pre-drained of meaning, an emblem of high culture reproduced until it reads as free stock.
Wikipedia does not identify who designed the cover or how the elements were chosen, and we have not found a reliable attribution. Claims about the designer's intent should be treated as fan reconstruction.
Beware search results conflating this Helios with the 1960 gilded Helios by T. B. Huxley-Jones at BBC Television Centre in London. Different object, different continent, no connection.