If it is not that necessary to create a custom decorator for what you want to achieve, you can try decorating the element directly like the following:
$elementDecorators = array(
'ViewHelper',
array(array('element'=>'HtmlTag'), array('tag' => 'dd')),
array('Label', array('tag' => 'dt')),
array(array('wrapper'=>'HtmlTag'), array('tag' => 'div')),
);
that shud produce a markup like so:
<div>
<dt><label/></dt>
<dd><input/></dd>
</div>
and so if you want to add anything you want within/between/before/after the dd or dt you can modify as thus:
$elementDecorators = array(
'ViewHelper',
array(array('addition'=>'HtmlTag'), array('tag' => 'span')),
array(array('element'=>'HtmlTag'), array('tag' => 'dd')),
array('Label', array('tag' => 'dt')),
array(array('wrapper'=>'HtmlTag'), array('tag' => 'div')),
);
that shud produce:
<div>
<dt><label/></dt>
<dd><span><input/></span></dd>
</div>
which just wraps a span tag around the element before the dd tag does.
after decorating you can simply add the variable as the decorator of the element.