Can I specify the starting slide with external jquery?

I currently have one flexslider working on my site which is being output through views. I need another that will also be output by views, but I need something specific.

Depending on which image is clicked, I need the slideshow to load, find the right image by class, count what slide that is, load that number into a variable, and then set the variable as the starting slide. I have all those steps done and working with the cycle slideshow, but I want to use flexslider.

I was thinking a possibility was to just use the jquery plugin, and not the drupal module, but I couldn't seem to get it to work since my slides are in divs being output by views, and not a ul.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!