Speaking of Wilde, Pet Shop Boys' "I get excited" features a line inspired by a quotation of his. The Pet Shop Boys' lyric reads, "We're lying in the gutter, but we're looking at the stars." Oscar Wilde's quote is, "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."
The Pet Shop Boys have been well-known to incorporate numerous allusions, in fact, it would be too much to list all of them. For example, In the night is a tale about the Parisians during World War II. The title "Can you forgive her?" is taken from the title of Anthony Trollope's novel. "Being Boring" contains a reference to Zelda Fitzgerald, and "A Red Letter Day" has a reference to Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett.
F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby has countless similarities to "The Banquet of Trimalchio" from Satyricon, written by Petronius Arbiter. The protagonist in this story is Trimalchio, a former slave, who suddenly becomes wealthy. He hosts lavish banquets and soirees, like Gatsby.
Likewise, if one is writing, allusions are a spectacular technique to utilise. Do not worry too much about the reader or the audience not grasping the allusion. If the reader or audience does not understand the allusion, they will have learned something new.
I shall close with a favorite quote of mine, "There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. That is all."---Oscar Wilde