Insert Text into table cells using Google Docs API

Pretty new here, but I'm encountering an implementation problem I need some help with:

I am building a Google Docs integration that involves programmatically creating a table and then mapping through an array of records to add the data of those records to the table cells. I'm able to create a blank table and locate the start index of each cell to insert the data into, but when I try to use the insertText request from the docs and place the text in a specific cell I get the following error:

"Invalid request[1].insertText: The insertion index must be inside the bounds of an existing paragraph. You can still create new paragraph by inserting new lines."

I've tried the following

• Simply inserting my text and hoping that each insertText request places text in a new cell
• Adding '\n' at the start index of the cells
• Creating the table with tableRows already defined (this error out as an invalid request format)
• Creating cells one-by-one and inserting text after each appended 1x1 column or row (eventually you create a row that duplicated the row above it with multiple columns and all text would just be in the first cell)
• Inserting Column breaks after the first cells text in hopes it would shift the paragraph over to the new cell