its your lack of shadows that's making it flat and lacking contrast and depth.
you've removed the wall in front of the camera to see in - but in doing so you've flooded the place with light from a low angle which is killing your shadows produced from the ceiling lights.
I've asked the octane team for a long time now to have the feature 'primary visibility' on/off..... which is exactly what you need in this case.
you need to set the out side lighting power to a very dark grey so your indoor scene uses the ceiling lights more, a dark grey will 'act' as the light bouncing off your 'invisible' wall without killing the shadows you will have under the tables and chairs.
JF
I need advise about my render
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Maya 2013 / W7 64bit / Intel i7 980 / 24GB / Gigabyte gtx 580 3GB + 2*EVGA gtx 680 4gb / MB Gigabyte X58A-UD3R / NZXT Phantom - white/black case
Maya 2013/W7 64bit/Intel i7 3820/16GB/ MB Gigabyte GA-X79-UD3 /4*EVGA gtx 680 4gb/SSD 6Gb.s /CM HAF X case
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Thank you for all your advises, i'm working on it.
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merid888
try using AO is very simple and realistic, i been used pt or pmc, believe more flat, without reflects, so asking and reciving help the AO is the best way to get fast and realistic images, i have gtx690 too and the time is amazing, no more 4 minutes in high resolution, if you want more send me a pm
I second that. AO forever! 
AMD FX8350 8 cores. 16GBs RAM
GTX690
Win8 64.
GTX690
Win8 64.