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I also have a converted shed that I put a piece of vinyl flooring down. But I DO deep litter.
When I started it, I got a couple wheelbarrows full of dirt right from the garden and put it down as a base layer. (Amount you use depends on the size of the shed, of course!) It wasn't a lot, but it was enough to get whatever was in the local soil - including pill bugs, worms, everything - in the coop.
Then I put the litter over that.
First few days they went to town digging around in there to get at the bugs and stuff. It was great fun! I haven't put more dirt in again since that first time, but when I take part of the litter out a couple weeks down the road here, I may put a little more fresh dirt in.
Where there's a will...there's a way
Probably not as good as a dirt floor, but I think it DID get things started in there and it sure had a medium for multiplication with the droppings.
ETA: When they were digging around in the dirt and shavings it mixed everything in. It still does get mixed in when they dig around but a good deal of the dirt is at the base layer. I usually do a bit of stirring up with a small rake or garden shovel at least 1x week too.
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