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The first thing to do is to look at what output voltage you need.

Watts = Volts2/
From this you can determine that you need 2.83 V RMS, which is 4 V peak, which is
8 V peak to peak. This clearly eliminates the 3.3 V supply as being able to power the
final stage. The 5 V supply could be used if you implement a bridge drive circuit,
which ideally can drive to 5 V. You need 4 V, so 5 V supply is about the minimum,
and gives you 1 V overhead the pass elements are allowed to eat up. Since a
saturated BJT is usually just a few 100 mV, and a fully on FET can easily be found at
this voltage that is just a few m when on, this is at least doable.
The 18 V supply is large enough to power a single-ended driver, with the other side
of the speaker connected to ground thru a suitably large capacitor. However, that
will be quite inefficient and will require some thought about how to get rid of the
heat unless you use a class D final stage.
The rest is really up to you. This isn't a gimme da codz kind of site, and your
question is otherwise too broad, and may even get closed on that ground.
As for your parts list, I'm ignoring that completely. Parts to make a variety of small
audio power amplifiers like this are cheaply and readily available at the other end of
the internet, so nowadays designing to some limited and usually inapplicable set of
parts you happen to have on hand is silly.

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