On the observing/recording simultaneously- you CAN do it, you're just struggling to focus. Relax, try to block everyone else out, try to go slowly, focus is your biggest struggle besides apathy. Help me help you.
Everyone is encouraged to re-read pp.46-48 in 'Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain' and repeat this exercise as often as you want to to build both your perceptual skills and your mental L-to-R mode shifting skills. Everyone is also welcome to re-submit this assignment (decorating, filling with zentangle, expressing & interpreting the positive & negative spaces of the vase/face illusion) for a higher grade before the end of the semester.