Make Graphics Bend With Extruded Sides in 3D

Hi there, I'm trying to do something kind of complex, and I'm hoping to find a way to do this natively in AfterEffects, or maybe to get some sort of plugin if that's available.

The basic idea is that I animated a book with bendy pages.

I'm using the Cinema 4D renderer (it seems that my current computer can't use Advanced 3D, either because of system requirements or just because I haven't updated AE quite new enough yet).

I achieved the page bending by just having a simple curved path, and then I extruded it.

After making the page, I made a text layer with a mask that matched the path of the page, and then (with some doing) got the text to lay down across the page using Per-Character 3D and some relatively simple expressions.

From what I've seen online, all of this seems to be pretty run-of-the-mill. But what I'd REALLY like would be to make it so that these pages could have images on them—for me to be able to create a vector graphic in Illustrator and superimpose that onto the page, so that the vector graphic or image or pre-comp will bend with the page as it's turning.

Is this impossible and/or way out of my league? Any help is appreciated.

Thank you, and have a nice day!