What you are basically trying to do with those nested loops is, how to convert a number in base 3 to a number in base 10. The way to do it is:
for (var i=0; i<3; i++){
for (var x=0; x<3; x++){
//return number from 0 to 9
addImage(3*i+x);
}
}
EDIT With your edit, the code becomes
for (var x=0; x<images.xAxis.length; x++){
for (var y=0; y<images.yAxis.length; y++){
//return number from 0 to 9
imgNumber = images.xAxis.length*i+x;
addImage(imgNumber);
}
}