Okay, well, even though I'm still not quite sure how "saw" comes from "sore" since they don't exactly sound the same... I'll take Crusty's answer, since it was indeed a play on words anyhow and she was the first at being the closest.
The answer I was looking for:
The man looked in the mirror,
took what he saw,
used the saw to cut the chair in half,
used the two halves to make a whole and
climbed out the hole.
The next riddle may commence.