I think you're talking at cross-purposes. Where there is a debate over whether it was rape or not is not the TV programme depiction (which is definitely rape) but the literary version in which she consents after saying "no". Cris is not unaware that the scene on screen depicts rape. The book is more contentious - if…

"Kathryn Geller Myers of the Pennsylvania Coalition Against Rape said that 'after the first "no" there should be no progression of seduction or whatever';anything that follows is rape. Does this mean that once you say 'no' your partner has no right to try to change your mind? 'That's exactly what I'm saying', replied…

You see that's interesting, because at one point the author mentions "blurred lines" in reference to the TV depictions, but actually that's not what's happened. The book has blurred lines (I'm basing this on the passages described) the TV programme unequivocably has rape.