Why not just add the word left or right? (Or am I being too simplistic?) In the past tense, the sentence could be:
They all pulled their left ear.
They all pulled their right ear.
They each pulled their right ear.
They each pulled their left ear.
I was tempted to use the "strictly" correct
They each pulled his or her left ear,
or
They each pulled his or her right ear,
but that would be too schoolmarm-ish (i.e., dogmatically strict).
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