How do I back up my iPhone from a previous backup on the iPhone itself rather than using my computer iTunes?

On the iPhone, it states that it was backed up yesterday and I would like to restore my iPhone back to this.
However, when I connect my phone to the computer and it asks me which backup I would like to choose, the last one available to me is in 2012, which is not suitable.
Is it possible to restore my phone to the backup that is on my phone or are the options that are available to me on my comptuter the only choices?
How it happened was that I bought a new iPhone and my old one has recently been given to a friend, who has since bought it a sim.
Before parting with this old iPhone, I did not check it was restored to factory settings and all of my information was still on it, including my contacts and the same apple ID.
When the new sim was put into the old iPhone, the friends contacts were imported and mine have since disappeared, from both the old iPhone and the one I am currently using.
Although the contacts that have been added to my old iPhone are on mine too, meaning mine are no longer on my old iPhone or my current one.
I really could do with my contacts back considering they are of importance, yet I have no idea how to go about getting them back, is there any chance anyone knows how I could restore my phone to a recent backup without connecting it to my computers itunes?
Thanks.

Your entire second paragraph is so confusing I am going to ignore it.
But I may be able to answer your first and third paragraphs, which seem to address the same question.
I wonder where your iPhone states it was backed up yesterday.  I am going to assume that you see this under Settings > iCloud > Storage & Backup.
If that is true, then the backup from yesterday is in iCloud.  The one and only way to restore an iCloud backup is to do this on your iPhone:
Settings > General > Reset > Erase All Content and Settings
That will cause your iPhone to begin a setup process.  As part of that process, assuming you enter the same Apple ID you used when you created the iCloud backup, you will be offered the opportunity to restore from it.

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