As an academic student, you need to develop critical and independent skills to assess literature and figure out how you can use it as a part of your argumentation.
In an academic context, you are not supposed to pretend you invented everything. You should rather show your ability to build upon existing theories, methods or texts, and show that you are capable of selecting and applying relevant theories to your work.
Texts can be used in different ways in your paper, depending on what purpose you want it to fulfill.
You can distinguish between the texts you use as inspiration or basis for further literary search, and the texts you actively use in your paper.
Often, it is important that you do not only reproduce the argumentation from your text, but also use them to build and make your own argumentation and produce some form of new knowledge.