Ideas for incorporating hamlet and Macbeth in the first scene of a play ?

I literally wrote out a whole plot for your play, scene by scene. I got all excited...and then I remembered you'll probably want to write it because that's the fun of it! Hahaha sorry I just LOVE Shakespeare!

But I did something similar with my friend, a role-play, and so I've combined part of that with some of my own ideas to create an idea for you.

After helping his cousin -- the most popular boy at school (me and my friend called it Verona High. A cool idea for you might be to come up with something similar, the name of a school that alludes to Shakespeare somehow) -- to win a fight with some tough guys, after one of them dared to question the virtue of his pure and innocent sister (the most popular boy is the Duncan character, the sister is your Ophelia), 'Duncan' decides to honour his cousin with a party to say thank you. While walking home, 'Macbeth' is greeted by three practitioners of witchcraft (there are teen practitioners of witchcraft, some are peaceful but some worship Satan, that might be the route you want to take) who tell him he will be the most popular boy at school. Banquo is with him, just like in Macbeth. This will be very important later on. His ambition gets the better of him and he brings the news to his girlfriend in a text or a Facebook message (kind of like 'the letter' to Lady Macbeth, so you can write her a soliloquy about ambition similar to Lady Macbeth's in which she decides that your Macbeth must kill Duncan at the party so he can be 'King').

Your Duncan character can also double as Laertes and your Hamlet can double as Banquo. It will work, just hear me out. The plays don't have to be exactly the same and it will put a cool spin on things, I think. So Duncan/Laertes (Ophelia's brother) catches her talking to Hamlet/Banquo (her love interest) and warns her to be careful about her virtue (because people aren't as crazy about virginity any more, maybe they're Christians and she took a virginity pledge and wears a purity ring? I do. I think this would work quite nicely for a modern day Ophelia).

So Lady Macbeth succeeds into convincing Macbeth to kill Duncan (maybe he stays overnight after the party?). Macbeth and Lady Macbeth become 'King' and 'Queen' of the school. But because Banquo/ Laertes was with him when his Kingship was prophecized, Macbeth starts to get paranoid that Banquo will figure out he killed Duncan (just like in the actual play Macbeth). So he hires two drug dealers to kill Banquo/Hamlet in exchange for money for drugs.

Meanwhile, since her brother's dead, Ophelia is going into decline, just like in Hamlet. Since Banquo is all suspicious of Macbeth, he can start pushing Ophelia away, which only drives her further into madness. Then he gets killed by the drug dealers. After that, she can go totally nuts and you can modernize her mad scene, write a new mad scene, I'd definitely give her a mad scene though, mad scenes are epic.

Then follow the plot of Macbeth, but modernize. Instead of Macbeth seeing Banquo's ghost at a banquet, it's a party. Macduff is an idealistic student who was a friend of Duncan/Laertes. Maybe the 'walking wood' prophecy can have something to do with a sports team? The witches prophecize Macbeth not being defeated until the woods walk. So maybe there can be a sports team with that name that comes to take the school on in a game or something? I have many endings, but I'll leave the rest to you. :) It's really easy to modernize Macbeth, and it's easy to tie in Hamlet, just by doubling up characters, altering relationships and tweaking things a tiny bit. :)

You don't have to use any of this though if you don't like it. :D