Clich s are there because they do work. You have to take a clich , romance or chase or whatever it is, break it apart and rebuilt it again with your knowledge, your intuition, your aesthetics, your craft. You take all those things and at the end of it, you should have something that is you, but that has embraced something that comes before, that people expect and works. Every so often, you can throw it all away and come up with something entirely fresh. But that doesn't get to happen too often usually, because that's not what is expected of you.
Some scores are revolutionary, but they're very few and far in between.
You're not there to be the star.