Implementing an I2C buffer in C
I have no experience with PIC, but the problem seems generic enough. I would create a simple array with two independent pointers into the array: one read pointer and one write pointer. Whenever you receive a byte, you increment the write pointer and write at the new position; in your main loop you could then check if the read pointer and the write pointer are the same. If not, you simply read and process from the buffer and increase the read pointer for every byte until they are. 

You could then either reset the pointers to the beginning of the array, or let them "flow over" to the beginning making essentially a circular buffer. This is easiest if the size of the array is a factor of 2 as you can then simply bitmask both pointers after their increments.

Some example (pseudo)code:

volatile unsigned int readPointer= 0;
volatile unsigned int writePointer=0;
volatile char theBuffer[32];
...
//in your ISR
writePointer = (writePointer+1) &amp; 0x1F;
theBuffer[writePointer] = ReadI2C(); // assuming this is the easiest way to do it
                                     // I would probably just read the register directly
...
//in main
while (readPointer != writePointer) {
  readPointer = (readPointer+1) &amp; 0x1F;
  nextByte = theBuffer[readPointer];
  // do whatever necessary with nextByte
}