iOS SideMenu Background Image not displaying correctly - ios

I have setup my project to mimic the SideMenu example project to the best of my abilities, but the background image for the sideview is
not displaying properly. I would like to only have underlines under the cells that I setup, not have a title bar and have the background image stretched across the sidemenu, not repeated several times. I am fairly weak on storyboarding, so if there is any info you need to help with this, please let me know. I have gone through all of the attributes settings I could and can't seem to find anything else helpful.
I have included a picture of the look I want to achieve, my current app and my current tableview in the storyboard interface
Below is my code showing how I am setting up the side menu background image.
SideMenuManager.default.menuLeftNavigationController = storyboard!.instantiateViewController(withIdentifier: "LeftMenuNavigationController") as? UISideMenuNavigationController
SideMenuManager.default.menuAnimationBackgroundColor = UIColor(patternImage: UIImage(named: "sidemenubackground")!)
// Enable gestures. The left and/or right menus must be set up above for these to work.
// Note that these continue to work on the Navigation Controller independent of the View Controller it displays!
SideMenuManager.default.menuAddPanGestureToPresent(toView: self.navigationController!.navigationBar)
SideMenuManager.default.menuAddScreenEdgePanGesturesToPresent(toView: self.navigationController!.view)
I am trying to achieve this look. My current view repeats the background image repeatedly, has a title bar on the top and has underlines under nonexistent cells:
This is what my side menu looks like currently:
Here is what my tableview looks like in the storyboard currently:

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