GUIText transition trouble

So I have a small, text-based cutscene that I have in my game, where the text fades when the player presses a button and new text instantly appears after three seconds. The fade and appearing aspects of my text are fine. It's just that I seem to have some trouble at the beginning of the cutscene: using UnityEngine; using System.Collections; using UnityEngine.UI; using UnityEngine.SceneManagement;

 public class Cutscene1Script : MonoBehaviour {
 
     public int cutsceneProgress;
     public bool startTimer;
     public bool noSpawn = true;
     public float cutsceneTransitionTimer = 3;
     public GUIText text;
 
     void Start (){
         noSpawn = false;
     }
     // Update is called once per frame
     void Update () {
 
         if (Input.GetButtonDown ("Fire1") && startTimer == false){
             startTimer = true;
 
         }
 
         if (startTimer == true) {
             cutsceneTransitionTimer -= Time.deltaTime;
         }
 
         if (cutsceneTransitionTimer <= 0) {
             cutsceneProgress += 1;
             cutsceneTransitionTimer = 3;
             startTimer = false;
             noSpawn = false;
         }
 
         if (cutsceneProgress == 1 && noSpawn == false) {
             Instantiate (text, new Vector3 (0.5f, 0.5f, 0), Quaternion.identity);
             text.text = "stuff";
             noSpawn = true;
             return;
         }
 
         if (cutsceneProgress == 2 && noSpawn == false) {
             Instantiate (text, new Vector3 (0.5f, 0.5f, 0), Quaternion.identity);
             noSpawn = true;
             text.text = "stuff2";
             return;
         }
         if (cutsceneProgress == 3 && noSpawn == false) {
             Instantiate (text, new Vector3 (0.5f, 0.5f, 0), Quaternion.identity);
             noSpawn = true;
             text.text = "stuff3";
             return;
         }
         if (cutsceneProgress == 4 && noSpawn == false) {
             Instantiate (text, new Vector3 (0.5f, 0.5f, 0), Quaternion.identity);
             noSpawn = true;
             text.text = "stuff4";
             return;
         }
         if (cutsceneProgress == 5 && noSpawn == false) {
             Instantiate (text, new Vector3 (0.5f, 0.5f, 0), Quaternion.identity);
             noSpawn = true;
             text.text = "stuff5";
             return;
         }
         if (cutsceneProgress == 6 && noSpawn == false) {
             Instantiate (text, new Vector3 (0.5f, 0.5f, 0), Quaternion.identity);
             noSpawn = true;
             text.text = "stuff6";
             return;
         }
         if (cutsceneProgress == 7 && noSpawn == false) {
             SceneManager.LoadScene ("NextScene");
             return;
         }
     }
 }
 

When the player first presses Fire1, the "stuff" text shows, w$$anonymous$$ch is what I want. The problem is that, on the next press, the same text shows up and then after a t$$anonymous$$rd press, it decides to change to "stuff2."

I t$$anonymous$$nk I have an idea on what is going on. Basically, after the GUIText fades, it gets destroyed and a clone is instantiated. I have a feeling the initial introduction of the clone is causing the problem, but I have no clue as to how to fix the problem.

One final note: t$$anonymous$$s script is on an empty gameObject, and the GUIText is defined as the initial object (it doesn't have (clone) on it via inspector).