The two-machine open shop problem: To fit or not to fit, that is the question

We consider the open shop scheduling problem with two machines. Each job consists of two operations, and it is prescribed that the first (second) operation has to be executed by the first (second) machine. The order in which the two operations are scheduled is not fixed, but their execution intervals cannot overlap. We are interested in the question whether, for two given values D1 and D2, there exists a feasible schedule such that the first and second machine process all jobs during the intervals [0,D1] and [0,D2], respectively.