Sounds like a plan. In case it's not obvious you bend up the plastic retention clip like a diving board with a hobby knife or whatever to pull out the crimped wire. The photo shows the 2 locations where the rear-light goes to. The purple wire is undoubtedly in the housing already so you need to find a place to tap into that wire. Depending on your engine this wire may go to another circuit board or connectors where you can pick it off, or you can splice into the wire, or whatever...in other words a wiring exercise.