I, too, will face this issue when I fire up the new system for the first time - I have the very same 6" x 14" hop spider and a Blichmann kettle with the boil coil, and I already know it hits the element - causes it to sit funny BUT, does it really matter? Even if one doesn't like the fact it touches the heating element, does it have any negative effect on the hops?
When I used to brew on a bayou burner with a 10-gallon boilermaker I used to just toss the hop pellets right into the kettle (this was before I got the 6x14 strainer thingy) and I'm pretty sure I did not see any negative effects having the hop material in direct contact with the bottom of my kettle with a 50,000 BTU jet-blast of fire hitting the other side. Not sure having the hop material in a screened chamber resting on the heating element is really all that different, is it?