Memristor, as a fundamental nonlinear circuit element, is very suitable for realizing new nonlinear circuits that are able to exhibit complex dynamical behaviors. A modified state-controlled cellular nonlinear network (SC-CNN) cell containing memristors, the output nonlinear function of which is implemented with the intrinsic nonlinearity of memristor, is presented in this paper. By using appropriate connection of four modified SC-CNN cells, a SC-CNN based memristive chaotic circuit is developed. In particular, an imitative memristive circuit is developed to experimentally investigate its dynamical behaviors. The resemblance of experimental results with those of numerical simulations shows that the memristive chaotic circuit can be efficiently implemented in terms of SC-CNN scheme.