The man in South Korea who sits on a hill contemplating the meaninglessness of existence says...

I was assigned my quasi-creative final assignment in Contemporary Literature class on yesterday, and I've been contemplating what I'm going to do with it ever since. My friend J sat next to me in class and upon reading the assignment sheet looked at me and said "you need to help me, this stuff is easy for you artsy fartsy english majors!" J is taking this class as an elective. She wants to go to law school (maybe). But now I'm thinking about what she said, and I realize that she was wrong. This creative stuff isn't so easy. The ideas come, but the execution of said ideas is far more complicated.
The assignment says you can do one of 2 things: you can adapt a text or genre from the course into a medium of your choice (as long as it CAN BE DONE) OR you can create your own text/art form/etc from a genre we explored on the course. In September when Stephen, my TA and professor for the course, explained how we could go about completing the assignment I began thinking about what I would like to do. Then, in our last lecture of first semester, inspiration struck me! It was a guest lecture on digital poetics, and I was captivated. I would write my own poem and then animate it using Flash or Shockwave (with the help of technologically-minded individuals that I know, of course). I didn't decide to do it because Stephen said he would be ridiculously impressed if any student attempted it, seeing as this is the first time Digital Poetics had ever been on the course. I did it because I think my words in poetry, which come to me few and far between but intensely when they do, would be really cool in motion.
But now I'm having trouble deciding what to write about. One of the poems we watched was about a man in South Korea who lost his job and renounced all his possessions and family and went and lived in this commune with other unemployed people and sat on a hill contemplating the meaninglessness of existence. The way the poem was animated was so clever, so hilarious, that I almost missed the message behind it. I want to do that, but I can't image what I could write about that would be effective.
The assignment isn't due until March 14th, so I'm taking suggestions. Feel free to contribute your input about what should or shouldn't go into my digital poetry. And comment if you know how to use Shockwave or Flash, PLEASE!

"Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?"

-Laur