I'm a newb to all of this and I bought PBP so I wouldn't have to learn assembly but I may have been wrong.

From what I can gather bit banging in PBP may be the only way to do it but I was hoping that maybe there may be another way.

For example:
Would it be possible to bit bang just the initial WRITE ENABLE SEQUENCE (WREN) of it then switch to I2C for the address/data portion and finally bit bang the WRITE DISABLE SEQUENCE (WRDI)

or

If PBP can compile assembly along side of PB and someone would be kind enough to supply me with the some example assembly and coach me through it so I understand it, that would be great too?

Thanks