Looks like the course is providing you with some fun things to try..  I have only experimented with a similar technique to do paintings with the reverse effect into a darkened room and then use that as a canvas to paint over the image that is reflected into the room on a wall, it works well once you get over the upside down image! 

Keep us posted on the progress buddy

Danny O'Byrne  http://www.digitalartzone.co.uk/

"All the technique in the world doesn't compensate for the inability to notice" Eliott Erwitt