Think of someone standing in front of a pile of things that already exist — chairs, flights, instruments, voices — and putting them into an order that works. Nothing new is invented. The pieces were all there before; what changes is where each one goes and when it arrives. Every use of this word is that same person in a different room: one lays out hotels and trains, one lays out violins and drums, and one of them is not a person at all but a keyboard laying out a backing band while you play.
From the word’s history
The packet's Wiktionary etymology derives arrange from Old French arangier, formed on a- plus reng, a row or rank (itself from Frankish *rank). So the oldest picture under this word is putting things into a row, which is still what every sense describes.
資料裡的 Wiktionary 字源把 arrange 回溯到古法文 arangier，由 a- 加上 reng 組成，而 reng 的意思是「一排、一列」（再往前來自法蘭克語 *rank）。所以這個字最底層的畫面就是「把東西排成一排」——今天每一個意思講的還是同一件事。
Wiktionary etymology supplied in this packet (kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:1336515742): Old French arangier < a- + reng 'row, rank' > Middle English arengen > English arrange + -er
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