lost

I feel so lost as a photographer. Lately I've been scared to even pick up my camera because of the confidence I'm lacking lately in my work. I'm intimidated by others arround me and I want to just have no restrictions and have total creative freedom. My 145 class's homework, due tomorrow might i add, is to shoot 9 different concepts for a CD cover without using people. But I LOVE shooting people. I have so many ideas but they all involve people so where do I begin? 9? How will I approach this? I guess I have many other ideas but no acess to what I'd shoot my fullest potential on. This makes me lack motivation. Thats where I question my passion. My passion isn't for "Photography" I guess its more so "Photographing people" because if my passion was really for photography I wouldn't be procrastinating this. I want to shoot, but I don't like what I'm shooting. Everywhere I turn people are flaunting their photos. Should I have this attitude as well? How do you just gain confidence!? I want to know. Everyone arround me is so talented and most know where they want to be and what exactly they want to shoot. Most have this awesome equipment and then theres me who has a great camera with a crappy lens taking 1400 pictures with 2 lights on, one lamp, no flash, lights off no lamp one candle, all lights on, no flash, curtains pulled. What Im saying is, I guess I'm just frustrated. I feel a bit confined. And, I'm undereducated. I don't know the full potential of my camera yet. I hope to continue to expand my knowledge taking this course. I hope I can gain confidence and be able to shoot with it. Wish me luck on this assignment :-X