In meaning and within the context of the sentence originally quoted, lit and lighted are fully interchangeable.
But language isn't only about meaning. Ernest Hemingway wrote a short story called "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place". The immediate impression would have been not-so-subtly different if it had been called a "A Clean, Well-Lit Place". The actual title conjures up an image that is vaguely Dickensian, while the option... well, it doesn't sound weighty enough to be a story title at all.
That's because lighted doesn't flow off the tongue as easily as lit. And as we have become more lazy and less well educated, we have adopted short, simple words and abandoned everyday use of their more cumbersome equivalents. Thus when you do use a less familiar word you add a portentiousness to your speech or writing. Sometimes of course, you come across as simply pompous
