Replay a modified request and return the response

My script does the following:

  • (done) Forward the original request
  • (done) If the response content contains a know string, then
  • (done) Make a new request with python’s requests library, extract a session cookie
  • Modify the original request with the newly obtained sessions cookie
  • Replay the now modified request
  • Return the modified requests’ response as if it were the original requests’ response

How can I replay the flow’s request from inside a mitmproxy script’s response method and return the newly obtained response as if it were the response to the original request?

Thanks:)