You can make a simple summing circuit with 2 resistors or make an audio mixer with an opamp.
You can make a simple lowpass filter with one resistor and one capacitor but it won't do much or you can make an active 2nd-order or 3rd-order lowpass filter with an opamp and some resistors and capacitors that works good.
Usually when there is a sub-woofer the stereo amplifiers are fed from highpass filters.
Like you or someone else in your class was told in one of these forums, the LM1877 is a very low power stereo amplifier IC. You will need a more powerful mono amplifier to drive a sub-woofer.