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Nick,
No, just palpating the area with the hands is not a good enough assessment. You should have an MRI.
From an anatomical standpoint, the reason that you feel that flat area is because you probably tore the tendon of the medial head of the biceps from its insertion into the bone. The biceps are a two headed muscle that insert into the same area at the elbow (radial tuberosity). You can't find something that is no longer there. I'm using an educated guess here because I don't have the luxury of seeing the injury myself.
From the standpoint of your doctor, yes, your arm will gain its function back. But, he is not considering that you are a bodybuilder, and you are very much concerned with the appearance of your arms. Doctors tend to think functionally, which you should get back. To most of them, as long as the arm works fine, why worry about how it looks?
Early on when I was just a couple of years into my training, I incurred a shoulder injury. I was young, and absolutely rabid about training. I went to see the doctor about my injury and he nonchalantly told me to "just quite lifting weights". He might has well cut my heart out. To him, bodybuilding served no meaningful purpose to him, so why should it matter to anyone else. What did it matter to him? He was just a fat little meatball of a man .
You need to see an orthopedic surgeon, and sooner would definitely be better than later. You very well may not need surgery at all, but let an expert who will make that decision based on more than just palpating the area with his fingers. As far as stretching, definitely err on the conservative side.
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