I’m not sure I agree with you in regards to tense and aspect of Hebrew. Hebrew is certainly different from English, but they still had a number of ways to express the pluperfect or past perfect. The most common way would have been to interrupt the series of vayyiqtols with a vav + fronted subject followed by a qatal verb or even possibly just a v-qatal verb form. Check out Zevit’s monograph, The anterior construction in classical Hebrew (1998).

The other question would be what the context it. I think it would be far more important to make it fit the primary context first (e.g., God’s declaration that is not good for the human to be alone, and therefore he makes the animals, and then makes the woman), rather than the larger (dare I say artificial?) context — especially when the two creation accounts are separated by a toledot formula, which functions both to link the stories, but also highlights that the stories were originally distinct.

Any ways… thanks for your comment!

And Naomi, I have placed an order with our library for the book you mentioned. It looks quite interesting. Thanks for the recommendation.