Ok the only way i could identify a solution for this was to do the following

            ContentAreaData contentArea = this.CurrentExtensionPageData.GetContentAreaById("RightColumn");
            foreach (var data in contentArea.ContentFunctions)
            {
                if (data.Guid == ContentFunctionData.Guid)
                {                    
                    string xtc = "do some magic"; 
                }
            }

Let me know if any one else finds any different approaches to this .

Minesh