If you're at the room with the floor grate blocking access to the circular stairwell, then the puzzle is solved in one room behind the thrones, and the clue to solving it is in the other room. The levers by the thrones control access to the rooms, but you can only access one or the other, not both at the same time.
Beyond that, most of the puzzles have to do with matching the arrangement, and that includes the positions of the pillars themselves. Look at the clue room and you'll see.
I got stuck there, too, but it was because the pillars wouldn't rotate, so I had to reload, and everything worked fine after that.