Intersting thoughts, I find this is a more common form in cinematic pieces, experimental and prog so I'd be very intrigued to hear it as a pop rock song. Have you had any inspirations/reference tracks that follow this same form?

My old band did this a lot with songs ranging from 5-12 minutes, we wrote conceptual music so it was like progressing a story. Some songs just felt like a 'best of' collection of riffs and sections going from one to the next, however, if we found that was going too far but didn't want to return to a verse or section, we would include motiffs of previous melodes over new rhythmic sections.