New to FM (InDesign user); help with graphics, please?

Hi everyone. I'm a long-time user of most Adobe CC products including InDesign, but recently I was hired by a company which produces a lot of heavy technical manuals, and so Framemaker has featured large in my future. I think I'm doing OK learning the program, but wondering if I'm up against the wall when it comes to certain kinds of graphics. The company also produces smaller guides - which I created in InDesign - That feature an image frame and a text frame grouped as a single object. I had created a blank object to store in my Library for use in ID and it works well. Is there anything like that I can use in FM? I'm not finding much so far, it almost looks like I'd have to create these little insets as separate files and import them as graphics, but that seems like a pain. I'm attaching a page showing the type of graphic I'm referring to. 

Also, is there an easy way to set up a continuous color field behind a block of text like the bulleted list on the page, without having to create a separate frame? Thanks!