Can I call a <system-region> from a block/stylesheet?
This isn't possible as those only get processed when they are in a template. The best thing to do is to include a block and/or page chooser in your data definition allowing you to easily re-use content on the site. This content will appear inline in the resulting XSL and can be transformed by your XSL.
Example data definition XML with a page and block chooser:
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