Time Capsule - What can I do with it?

Hello Community,
I think, this is the first post I write here, so - it's nice to be here, I hope there's anybody around who understands and could help me. I'm looking for an external Harddrive that I have not to plug in my USB Port, everytime I need it. So I found the Airport Time Capsule. I bought the 2 tb version and was very excited about the Design as I set it up. But then I got some problems. I thought, I could put it on my table next to my TV and use it wireless in my already existing Home WLAN. There are two options - is that the first time I'm totally dump with an Apple Product, or did I missunderstood something?
By the way - I hop I write clearly, because it's not my best language.
So I thought, I set it up, connect it to my Router, and use it as a harddrive on the existing network as a 'server' like harddrive. But when I set it up, I have to connect it by a ethernet cable to my router and even if the setup is done and the green light is turned on and I plug the ethernet cable out, the yellow light is back and I can't find it anywhere on my mac. What do I wrong? I don't want to create a new Network, I only want to add the Time Capsule to the existing. So when I'm at the Assistent program, and I choose the secound point, so I mean "add the time capsule to an existing network" and I click next - in the top line there still stands "the airport time capsule will create a network" (I don't know if thats the correct translation I only know the german one).
What do I have to configure? Or am I on the wrong way? Can you help?
Thanks for your help!
Best wishes
Enerminator

Yes - ok I think I described it not that clear as I wanted it to.
My main Router is mounted on a wall in an other room, where is not enough space to put everything around, what I wanted to connect to my TC. So I wanted to set the TC up, bring it in the right room, for my printer, the home cinema center, and my secound external harddrive, which everything runs only on LAN. So I need to connect the TC to an Apple Network. So I only need an Apple Airport Express or Extrem to put it via Ethernet on my Router, so then my TC is able to find a Network to log wirelessly in to?
The distance from my router to the living room (where I'd like to connect everything to the TC) isn't that far. By air there are only 4 metres and one wall.
But you helped me a lot! So I will go and buy an Apple Airport Extreme tomorrow, set it up to my router and hope that it'll work that way
Thanks a lot,
best wishes

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