Adding pages and Text Frames to emulate the behaviour of "Smart Text Reflow"

I am creating a large number of tables in a document.  If I have Smart Text reflow turned on, my script does not work properly.  I have the start of the processing:

1. Add a new table

2. If the last page text frame overflows then Add a new page

With smartTextReflow turned off, I want to ensure that new text frames that match the primary text frames from the master page.  It has to be able to handle getting the parameters from the left/right page text frame.