In his paper "Categories and cohomology theories" Graeme Segal gives examples how to construct a Gamma category and therefore also a Gamma space from a strict monoidal category like finite chain complexes of complex fin.-dim. vector bundles with the alternating sum over the dimensions equal to 1 and chain homotopy equivalences as morphisms. This yields a nice model for $BU_{\otimes}$ and proves that this is an infinite loop space. My question is
Can you still construct a Gamma category if the monoidal structure is not strict, for example if there is a non-trivial associator? If such a Gamma category $C$ exists, what would $C(3)$ and the induced morphisms look like?