The phrase "adapts ideas" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing the process of modifying or adjusting concepts to fit different contexts or needs.
Example: "In her research, she adapts ideas from various disciplines to create a more comprehensive understanding of the topic."
Alternatives: "modifies concepts" or "adjusts notions."
Military khaki, however recast, is still a common street look, and Mr. Van Noten's method of mixing olive drab with tailoring or reinterpreting the trench coat as a skirt merely adapts ideas from men's fashion, notably by Junya Watanabe and Raf Simons.
Forbes.com: Is China moving past its reputation as a country that develops and adapts ideas instead of innovating?
The proposed solution adapts ideas from emerging point-based geometric modelling and extends the dynamic base surfaces (DBS) concept in order to improve the accuracy of the produced parameterizations.
The Martin Aerodynamic adapted ideas from the aero pioneer Paul Jaray.
Its title, in Bengali, was "Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing?," and it adapted ideas from his new book, a primer on cosmology.
In the "Greensward" plan you can see how Olmsted and Vaux adapted ideas from Repton, Ruskin and other Romantics to fit an urban environment.
Surely there is no crime in creating Halloween costumes, horror movies and Broadway musicals that freely adapt ideas from Shelley's book.
He adapted ideas garnered from the then-current Romantic literatures in order to extend American libertarianism and individualism beyond the political and religious spheres to those of social and personal life.
Daniel Koretz, a professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, noted that improvements in teaching were seldom linear, but took several years of adapting ideas to a teacher's style and classroom circumstances.
Smith, adapting ideas explored in Barrington Levy's recent hit Under Mi Sensi, laid down a set of lyrics professing his love for skinny marijuana cigarettes and his disapproval of the harder drug cocaine.
What can you borrow or how can you adapt ideas from other places to your needs?
