Change of coordinates in Frobenius Theorem.

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I was reading a proof of Frobenius Theorem but I can't understand the last part on changing coordinates.

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enter image description here (The following proof of the Theorem assumes involute property and wants to prove integrability.)

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In the last paragraph, how is $u^i$ constructed? By lemma 2, we can pick coordinates $\bar u^i$ so that $Y=\frac{\partial}{\partial \bar u^r}$, but I'm not sure how then we can construct $u^i$.