Advice on coding for a Circuitplayground project!

I'm very new to this community in general, so I apologize if I am posting this in the wrong place. I primarily do woodworking, but on my latest project wanted to include an LED component, which quickly grew out of hand into my current conundrum.

Basically, I'm trying to make a display stand which has a scintillating color pattern going constantly underneath it. Then, when you tap/touch the top of the stand, the color pattern shifts. Afterwards, it goes back to the original pattern.

I've played around with the tutorials of Adafruit's Circuit Playground as much as I can, and I can sort of get it to do both of those things separately. But I am having 0 success in getting both in the same program. I'm also trying to attach another LED to the playground for a backlighting effect, but likewise am having no luck with the programming part...

I know this is a lot of text, but if anyone could offer any help/ code it would be incredibly appreciated!

(For context, I have a big obsidian sphere, sort of like a LOTR palantir, and am trying to make an awesome stand for it. The wood part is almost done, and has built in space for the electric components. I'm thinking a sort of blue gentle swirling pattern until the sphere is touched, when it will change to a more red palette.)