Okay, I don't think this would be a simple template mod so until I get a better feel for modding, I'll throw this out as a suggestion.
Right now, the addon randomly selects one featured thread and that is all you see until you refresh.
How about an option to set a number of featured threads that will automatically rotate at the top of the node/forum view? So let's say you configure 5 as the number then if you go to the node list, it will show one then "slide" to the next after a few seconds, etc.
Like a javascript slider except instead of sliding images you would slide featured threads.