You really should be using a shielded interconnect with RCA jacks on both ends from the receiver's sub/LFE out to the sub's line level input. You would then adjust the sub from the receiver's bass management menu. Let's call this "option 1".
But, from what you say you will need to tell your receiver that you are NOT using a subwoofer and connect both + and - terminals on the sub to the respective front right and left speaker outputs and make any bass adjustments directly on the sub. The receiver will be totally out of the picture here.
IIWY, I'd fine a way to use option 1.