hi Justin,
I guess, you might have resolved this already by now. But it may just help someone else. Zehon offers a utility client called SFTPClient.
So, what you could have done is a a utility class which has a instance variable as say ChangeRemoteDir which gets set to the dir of your choice and then calls the SFTPClient method as is.
So, it can be something like -
where remoteFilePath is the one you have already set before this call.