Cultural innovators

I'm continuing Csenge's theme; what is a trickster? Some of them are cultural innovators, their anarchic curiosity sometimes produces valuable cultural progress. The nordic trickster god Loki for example, his antics gives the gods both the hammer of Thor and the eight-legged horse of Odin. But does Monkey leave us with something of value? He gives his fellow monkeys a cave de-luxe, and as we will learn later in the story, he protects them and gives them long life by erasing their names from the records of Death. And as companion to the monk Tripitaka he helps getting the books of Buddha home to China. That is, for a trickster, an uncommonly unselfish and disciplined cooperation. And a job he doesn't do completely voluntarily! His development from classical trickster to enlightened ape is one of the most fascinating stories within the story. That is not difficult to describe in a one hundred chapter long text. But how do you show it in a shorter oral storytelling performance?