AWS SAM building Layers locally with `--use-container` flag?

Question

I'm using the sam cli to build and deploy AWS Lambdas:

The sam build command iterates through the functions in your application, looks for a manifest file (such as requirements.txt) that contains the dependencies, and automatically creates deployment artifacts that you can deploy to Lambda using the sam package and sam deploy commands.

What's cool is that i can use the option flag --use-container to build functions that have natively compiled dependencies inside an AWS Lambda-like Docker container.

What about AWS Lambda layers?

I have a function:

  CreateImagesLambdaFunction:
    Type: AWS::Serverless::Function
    Properties:
      Runtime: python3.7
      Handler: lambda_function.create
      CodeUri: ./functions/image_handler/
      ...
      Layers: 
        - !Ref LayerPillow

that uses a layer with natively compiled dependencies (thus must be installed on linux):

  LayerPillow:
    Type: AWS::Serverless::LayerVersion
    Properties:
      ...
      ContentUri: ./functions/layer_pillow/

I can get around this by just install the dependencies using the amazonlinux:latest docker image and copying to my repository, but was curious if SAM supported this functionality