Interesting read, thank you! I was coincidentially going into this direction. The idea was to create a still life picture without the constraints of a room while still fulfilling the basic parameters of the challenge.
This would have been more appropriate for the concept (still struggling with text):
what's interesting about the genre still-life is that the subject is not interesting. It's about composition, light, colour. An apple is an apple; it's how you draw, paint, photograph, prompt it that is at play