[1] Mohney told Palmer to "steal" a plot from a pornographic novel, and after she discovered a book called White Captive, she remembered writing a short story for her college's creative writing class based on a news account on the 1968 Detroit riot about a group of black youths that had kidnapped a white girl, and Palmer decided to develop a plot based on these two sources.

[1] Additionally, Palmer's plot had contained elements that had been popular requests in surveys she had distributed to the cinema patrons, of things that customers, particularly women, had wanted to see in pornography, particularly interracial sex between black and white performers, and simulated rape.

[1] Palmer purchased a book on screenwriting and wrote a 40 page screenplay which she titled Hot Summer in the City, after the song by The Lovin' Spoonful.

"[1] Palmer injected social commentary into the plot by writing a riot enacted by black militants as having been funded by white businessmen in order to collect on the insurance claim.

[1] Further difficulties in trying to film cum shots led Mohney to employ a stunt penis from "Right-On Ray", a customer at Cinema X.