After reading your post, I started researching the "Shared with me", "Recent" and "Starred" options in Google Drive. I found that I can support "Shared with me" and "Starred", but not "Recent", as they don't provide a way to query for files in the recent list (that I can find). I have to add support for these new locations in a somewhat clunky way though, as they aren't really folders - They are just properties of files (starred or "sharedWithMe"). So my way of exposing these is to add folders to the root directory called "Shared with me" and "Starred". I've disabled uploading files directly to these locations, but you can upload to folders inside these locations if needed.
Mike
Mike