Hi all.. found a good guide on this topic:
http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=562

I think everyone is right! A compromise would be to cope and paste every thing from the paper and make some changes/additions so it does not look exactly the same. Perhaps change some wording/rearranging sentences... The figures should be easier to deal with. you may want to separate panels and explain them individually. Slight changes should deal with the plagiarism thing...