If it's just your bench, then ease back a bit and do some triples instead of singles. Even a max set of 5. Nothing really needs to change by the sounds of it. If it's limited to only your upper body, then I'd just do a repetition day instead of your max bench day.

As far as RE goes, I'd recommend no less than every 4-5 weeks no matter what. The repetition is STILL classified as a maximal effort because you're putting everything into lifting for as many reps as possible.

Consider one of three things. Either do an illegal wide grip (pointer finger outside the rings) for a 6 RM. Generally speaking, that's going to be roughly 80% of your 1 RM. That is a tremendous one for your power off the chest as well as hypertrophy.

Or you could do a neutral grip DB press for a record. Generally, it's a total of 3 sets with whatever weight you want to keep a record for. I would recommend picking a weight that has you straining on 10, but making at least 15 reps with. The most important part is taking 5 minutes rest between each set. Keep records of each (total). You could do incline, flat, seated, decline, ect. Keep records for everything. What's kindof cool about that is when you finally get around to doing it, say, a year from now, you could see some serious improvement.

The third is just doing a few sets of 15-20 reps.

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