topic to research...interesting but not quite right

i went to the daphne farago lecture at the museum of fine arts and there were many fine points made by the curator of the exhibit, which she brought in from the artists inside of the collection. The lecture touched on the subject of how different artists think about the body and materials.
One thought that stood out to me were from Diane Falkenstein and her action scupltures, who like Jackson Pollok as an action sculptor (jackson-painter) and how something so solid and permanent could at one time be molded and dripped into a solid form, that you could tell was once in liquid/movement forms.
Another was how creativity and fertility are connected, both fostering a new "life." by Ruudt Peters, who connected the two through the belly being a holder and making a container to hold onto the thought of creativity. Other thoughts from Ruudt Peters involved what materials were masculine and feminine and how alchemy could play a role into his work and others.
thrown away materials vs. what is precious (garbage vs memories or gold/silver)
the hand is an instrument of contact with another body what are other body parts the instrument of


Jan Yager looked at city nature turning crack vials, needles, dirty nature of the city into wearable, beautiful art and then looking to the nature of the city growing through the sidewalk cracks and using these things to demonstrate the persistance of life through everything bad.
All of these i thought were interesting ways to look and think of researching and reworking into my own ideas and work. Can i take several of these topics and research and eventually connect some of them together or are they there for seperate ideas that can change and develop my work style into something new.